CONDENSED NEWS ITEMSA fire at Omaha, Neb., Sunday night,

in a $1,000,000 grain elevator, causeda loss of $500,000.

Work has been begun on an irriga-tion scheme near Chewelah that isplanned to reclaim 10,000 acres.

It is announced on authority thatabout $175,000 has been guaranteedtoward a fund to help Dr. Cook prove

his claim to discovery of the northpole.

Eight cases of smallpox were discov-ered at Charleston, Wash., last week,and all schools, public halls, saloonsand pool rooms have been orderedclosed.

Humbert Leblon, a noted Frenchaviator, was dashed to death in Spain

Saturday when the motor of his aero-plane broke down when he was at aheight of 140 feet.

The state fair association is spending

$27,000 in improvements this summerand as a result expects to have thefinest exhibition grounds in the north-west.

Secretary Ballinger has temporarilywithdrawn from all forms of dispositionmany tracts of land in Washington andIdaho. A total of 7370 acres along theColumbia river in Washington is with-drawn.

An ordinance modeled after the Chi-cago one, and prohibiting the use ofhat pins which protrude from the hatmore than two inches, is being consid-ered by the Seattle city council.

A 3000-pound sunfish, thought to bethe largest ever captured, was caught

with rod and line off Catalina island,California, last Friday, after a strugglelasting two hours.

It is stated by the union officialsthat the voluntary wage increases an-nounced lately by certain railroads willnot alter the plans of the trainmen andconductors who have made demandsfor a larger increase.

The Salvation Army in this country

will have to change its name. On ap-

plication of the English organization

New York courts have issued an in-junction forbidding the present Ameri-can organization from using the name,

F. M. Hoskins, who owns 2SOOacres of land near Dayton, Wash., isplanning one of the largest orchardsjand nurseries in the west. Work ofletting out 75,000 apple trees has;

already commenced.For the first time since 1907 the

army cutworm has appeared in Montanain vast numbers. It is feared muchdamage will be done to the winter jwheat before the season is over.

Mad Mullah has risen again in re-!bellion to British rule in Arabia andfully a thousand natives friendly to theEnglish have been killed. Many towns

have been razed and vast areas laidwaste.

The two Japanese who were arrestedat Manila for attempting to purchase

photographs of the fortifications of Cor-regidor have been released on ordersfrom the secretary of war. •

Three prominent Germans, one a |member of the reichstag, lost their livesSunday by being crushed and drowned jwhile making a balloon ascension near

Stettin, Germany. A fourth memberof the party was rescued in a seriouscondition.

George H. Williams, 87 years old, |known as the "grand old man of Ore- 'gon," once a member of PresidentGrant's cabinet, and the most promi-.nent figure in politics and public lifein Oregon, died suddenly at his homein Portland, Monday, from heart failure. ,

As a result of the reduction of thetariff on cream it is believed the price

of butter will be sharply reduced in thenorthern states. A chain of creameriesis to be built along the border and but-ter made from Canadian cream.

The largest irrigation project everlaunched in the state of Washington,

the Klickitat Irrigation & Power Com-pany, has nearly the required numberof acres signed up for water rights. Outof the 250,000 acres required, 222,000have been signed up. About one-third of the lands to be irrigated lie inin the northeastern portion of Klickitatcounty, and the remainder in Yakimaand Benton counties.

The man who sets out in life's raceexpecting to have a walk-over is likely

to be run over before he has proceeded

far upon his way. —Ex.

To Venus in Twenty Minutes

The Hookworm in Oregon

Trouble For Hubby.

No Criterion.» Once during the progress of a certainease Sir Charles Darting remonstratedwill):i barrister for the way in whichhe was arguing a point.

•Yes 1 admit it," replied his loni-suip, with a quiet untie, "but thai wanthe fnult of the judge who allowed it "-London Tit-lilts.

William Sidis, the 11-year-old math-ematical wonder at Harvard, has turnedhis attention from problems of thefourth dimension to aerial navigation,

and as a result is now authority for thestatement that an aerial journey to

Venus inside of 20 minutes is a possi-

bility.According to Sidis, he has solved

the problem of aerial navigation, andall that remains is to put his conclu-sions into practice. His plan is to at-

tach a piece of radium to the stern ofan airship. Radium gives off the alpha

rays, which leave the radium withgreat force.

These rays, Sidis says, would be suf-ficient to drive an airship at tremendousspeed. Sidis has figured his theory

out mathematically, but so far has madeno attempt at a practical demonstra-tion. ,

Dr. Edwin Montgomery of WallaWalla says he has discovered in Weston.Ore., six cases of "hookworm," thefirst he has heard of in the northwest.The family moved to Weston recently,

and came from Smith county, Tennes-see. The possibility of its being trans-

mitted to the soil and in this way

spread over this section of the country'

is somewhat alarming, but the doctorsays it can now be cured. The fathercalled Dr. Montgomery to see his ten-year-old boy. The boy had all thesymptoms and a further examinationshowed the presence of the worms.

A number of cases of this diseasehave lately been discovered in Cali-fornia.

At a recent tea port; where the fareprovided could not by any means betermed palatable a guessing game wasinstituted, and the lady who vvou itwas asked to say what she would haveas a prize. She greatly flattered heryouug hostess by requesting a slice ofthe cake with which some of themhad desperately struggled at tea time.

"Why did you ask for that stuff?" adisappointed and ctill hungry youthasked her. "You know very well itisn't fit to ent."

"I have a definite purpose in view,"answered the young lady, carefullyplaciug the piece of cake where there

j would be uo possibility of her forget-; ting it. "1 mean to make my husband. eat it—if Qeceaary, to force it down his

throat crumb by crumb—and thus con-I vlnce him that somewhere in the wide,j wide world there Is an even worsecook than be imagines his inexueri-

j enced young wife to be."—Pearson's.I Weekly.

The Englishman In a Groove.Id England nine-tenths of the lads

1of the middle classes look forward tonothing more than a seat at an office

1 desk with a certain number of shlllings a week for a certain number ofyears. To attempt to do anything elsewould be to run the risk of social os-tracism. A young tnau may loaf re-

i spectably on his family, but he muston no account start a business If ItInvolves selling anything or producinganything with his hands. That wouldbe bad form. It would be getting out-side the groove. Thus for the greatmass of the people England holds noromance. The lad who thinks he coulddo something Is diioooraged. Every-thing is so cut and dried. Every classdistinction is 10 definitely marked.The Whole weight of public opinion isagainst the smallest divergence fromthe ordinary rule.—Manchester (Eng-Inndi Mall.

Next Door to It.An acquaintance of the late Josh

Billings was one day talking with himabout the remarkable increase of Imi-tations and substitutes for originalarticles, as \u25a0•oleomargarine" for "butter," "celluloid" for "Ivory," and soforth, "and," said he, •many of thesubstitutes go ahead of the real thing.

I gneu in time there will lie a substi-

tute for everything, though 1 don'tknow about 'wisdom.' "

"No;" replied the humorist, "up to

the present time at least there Is noreally good substitute for wisdom. Butsilence Is the best that has so farbeen discovered."

"You will pardon me, my lord," saidthe latter, "but perhaps 1 may remindyou thai jou argued \u25a0 case in a aimliar way yourself when you were nt

the bar."

Killed by Fear.Frederick I. of Prussia was killed by

fear. ' tils wife was lnsauo. and one

day she escaped from her keeper and.dabbing her clothes with blood, rushed

| upon her husband while he was dozing

In his chair. King Frederick imaginedher to be the "white lady" whose ghostwas believed to Invariably appeal-

whenever Hie death of \u25a0 member ofthe royal family was to occur, mid hewas thrown Into a fever and died insix weeks

A mortgage on the house will notprevent the roof from leaking- —Ex

An Idol With Diamond Eyes.

Ancient Iceland.

His Compliment.

No Apology to Offer.

Assembling Herself.

•Xbc «Uavcnwortb jLcho.

Drawing InferencesPresident Lincoln once told tln> fol-

lowing story to 1». 11 I'.aics. naiMflar..r tin war department telegraph offlce:

•Tin like an old colored man i knew.He (pent so much of his time preach-ing to the Other slaves it kept him andthem from their labors. Uls master

told him be would punl^i him thenext time he was caught Reaching.

•' 'But, marsa." said the old man. withtears in bi<t eyes. 1 always has to

draw infruenCM from Bible textswhen dey oomes in ma haid. I jes"caln t help it. Can you. marsa f

"'Well.' mid liis master, '1 suspect

Ido sometimes draw inferences. Butthere Is one text I never could under-stand, and if you can draw the rightinference from it I'll let you preachto your heart's content.'

" 'What is de text, marsa?' asked thecolored man.

The ass snuffeth up the east

wind." Now. what Inference do youdraw from that?'

" 'Well, marsa, I's neber heard dattext befo' nohow, but 1 'spects de in-fruence am she got to snuff a longtime befo 1 she get fat' "—PlttsburgChronicle-Telegraph.

Trapping a Tiger.The tiger Is possessed at times of an

almost supernatural cunning, a won-derful sense of smell and a line instinet with regard to traps and thelike, which make him as difficult auanimal to take alive as any existingSometimes he can be snared, but notoften. On one occasion the writer'snative Indian servant ran in in agreat state of excitement to say atiger was trapped lv the jungle halfa mile away, and the entire camp, ofcourse, at once flocked over to see theprisoner. The trap was exactly onthe principle of a humble mouse trap,

with a tailing door, and built of strong

timbers laced together with rattans

Tile imprisoned tiger was a full grown

mate, and it would be difficult toImagine anything wilder than his rageas he roared and stormed and hurledhimself in futile fury on each part ofthe structure in turn. There he wasto stay until hunger had rendered himmanageable, the lucideut showing thatthe tiger can be trapped, although not

often.—London Globe.

It is a curious fact and one scarcelyknown outside of Kussia. and therehardly ever mentioned, that the fa-mous Orloff diamond was once theright eye of the great Idol SerrlnghamIn the temple of Brahma. This pre-cious gem was stolen at about the be-ginning of the eighteenth century by aFrench soldier who had made a pre-tense of being converted to the Hindooreligion in order to gain the confidenceof the priests and admission to thetemple. The Funehman tirst sold thediamond for L2,000. On the next turnIt was bought by a banker of Con-stantinople for L12.000. The bankerkept It until 1774 nnd then sold it tothe liusslau empress for L90,000 anda life pension. The gem has been inthe Hussion royal family ever since.As it is now set lv the Imperial scepterof Kussia Jt present! a flattened, rosecut surface and weighs exactly 194Vicarats.

Iceland whs founded A. D. 874 bymen from Norway. In the words ofJohn Fiske. "it was such a wholesalecolonization of picked men as had not

been seen since ancient Greek timesand was not to be seen again untilWinthrop sailed into Massachusettsbay. It was not long before the pop-ulation of Iceland was 50,000. Theirsheep ami cattle flourished, bay cropswere heavy, a lively trade—with fish,

oil, butter and skins in exchange formeal and malt — was kept up with Nor-way, Denmark and the British isles.Political freedom was unimpaired, justice was fairly well administered, na-val superiority kept all foes at a dis-tance, and under such conditions thegrowth of the new community inwealth and culture was surprisinglyrapid."

The governor of a wesiern state wasmaking Inspection of certain state In-stitutions when he made inquiry as tothe progress of a chaplain by him ap-pointed to an insane asylum.

"How is he getting on?" asked thegovernor, thinking to get an unpreju-diced opinion from the official actingns his guide.

"Fine!" exclaimed the man. "Hispreaehin' Is very successful, governor.The Idiots enjoys it especially."—Cin-cinnati Commercial Tribune.

"Why spend three years cultivatingyour voice If you don't Intend to go

on the operatic stage?""For the same reason, I suppose, that

you've spent fifteen or twenty years incultivating a discriminating taste foralcoholic beverages and yet don't in-tend to go into the saloon business."—Chicago Tribune.

"Hubby, did you bring home my newswitch?"

"Yep.""And my puffs?""Idid.""How about my face powder?"' ": •\u25a0

"Here's your complexion. Now getbusy and assemble yourself."—Louis-

| ville Courier-Journal.

Hard to Deal. >\u0084Wigg—now do you get along with

old Crusty? Don't you find him hardto deal with? Wngg—As hard as awornout pack of cards.— PhiladelphiaRecord.

Prejudice squints when It looks andlies when it talks.-Abrautes.

A Bill Nye Story.

Needed an Explanation.

Plaid and Tartan.

Hall Caine'a Moonshine.

Won't Stay Retained.

His Definition.

A sharp faced little boy at the endof the end form bobbed up his beadand exclaimed. "Please, teacher, nobil-ity!"—Work and Play.

Jack Knew.

I intimities are things that ihowwhat Mifii are.—Epictetus.

According to the Hook man. Rill Ny«once madv ii short speech at an au-thors dinner 111 London that wasmuch relished by the bookman pres-put. lltetDdißg the publishers, ill whomit whs Indirect!} aimed.

"Just a year ago." said Nye. "I waswalking on the principal street of In-dianapolis when I met 11 man whoseappearance showed that he was re-dmed to the very depths of poverty.

His clothes were ragged, his face uu-BbuVeD, his hair long and matted andhis feet unshod. As I passed him alook of recognition came into bis eye.

" "Nye. old fellow, don't you knowme'r Don't you know Abel P Jones,

who was your clussmate at college?"•• -What. Jones: Is It really you?

Well, well: What can Ido for you?'•\u25a0 'For heaven's sake, help me. I aui

starving Lend mo half a dollar.'"I felt iv my pockMh They mn

empty. 1 had no money myself. Buta bright thought Hashed through mymind.

'• "Abel, I can't lend you the halfdollar. 1 haven't got It. But, lookhere, I'll tell you what I will do—l'lllet you publish my next book.'

"Uentleiuen. that wus just a yearago, and this tuoutti Abel P. Jonessent me an invitation to go to Europewltb him lv his steam yacht."

A little boy was often whipped byhis father for lying, lie usually tookit as a matter of course, but on one occasion it seemed to excite him to re-flection. After il was till over he stoodbefore his father in a thoughtful way.which attracted that worthy's atteu-Uon.

"My son," said the father, "what areyou thinking about?"

"Father," said the son, "when youwas a little boy. did you use to telllies?"

"No, my sou. When I was a littleboy I did uot tell lies."

"Father," returned the son. "whenmother was a little girl, did she useto tell lies?"

"No. my son," replied the father."When your mother was a little girlshe did uot tell lies. But why do youask me these questions?"

"Well." said the little fellow, draw-ing ii long sigh. "It is the most mys-terious thing In the world to me thata father who never told lies when hewas a little boy and a mother whonever told lies when she was a littlegirl could have a boy that tells asmany as 1 do."

Will the southron ever learn thai"plaid" Is not a syuonym for "tartan?"Not long ngu an Englishman came iutoa hosiers establishment in Glasgowand asUi'il v man behind the counter

to show him some "plaid ties." Theatteuduut, perhaps wondering whatthis new and weird article of wear-ing apparel could be, was completelybaffled until explanation elicited thefact that a necktie with a tartan de-sign was required Dickens, too. is asinner in this respect, for he makesBob Sawyer say with regard to wheth-er his political proclivities are "buff"or "blue"-"l'm v kind of plaid atpresent, a compound of all sorts ofcolors." Moreover, an English dic-tionary gives an adjectival meaningof "plaid" us "colored in squares."I've never heard such use in Scotland.Has any one else?— Scottish Field.

Authors and artists who have be-come well known by means of makingthe moon dance in the wrong housesof heaven are numerous, but we neverexpected Hall Came to Join the group.Yet in "The Scapegoat." chapter 23.on Israel's return from prison aftereveufall. we find that "with a waveof his baud he was gone into the dark-ness, it was a wonderful night. Themoon, which was In Its first quarter,

was still low in the east."It was indeed a wouderful night.

On no other night since the creationhas the moon in its first quarter everbeen seen low In the east.—LondonStar.

This notice appears on :\ Flushingsteamboat: "Passengers should obtaina receipt for all provisions taken onboard this boat and are requested to

retain the same."Busier said than done. It reminds

us of the old limerick:There was a young man of OstendWho said he'd hold out till the end,

L-iut when halfway overFrom Ostend to Dover

He did what he didn't Intend.

—London Globe.

At n London board school the teach-er had explained to the children themeaning of the word "ability." "Now.children," she went on, "what wordwould express the opposite to ability?"

On coming borne from the office thefather met .luck und Dick.

"What have you been doing today,boys?" he questioned.

"FigiitinV replied Dick."Fighting, eh? Who licked?""Mamma did." answered Jack.—Ex-

change.

In Keeping.Mediuru—The spirits won't rap un-

less you write out your request on pa-per. Patron—Any special kind of pa-per? Medium - Certainly - wrappingpaper.—St. Loujs Star.

jFridav Bprfl 8 1910

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Father —Do you think you are ableto support a family?

Frightened Suitor—Good Lord, man,I didn't ask for any but Mamie!

"What makes the trust magnate lookso worried?"

"He has just read that the Americanfarmer is very prosperous, and he feelbthat he must h?ve overlooked some-thing."

The chewing-gum girl lives fromhand to mouth. —Ex.

Got Tired of Being Dry

Elections in 260 cities and towns inIllinois Tuesday on the saloon issueshow a decided reversal of the vote oftwo years ago. Many cities having alarge population were recaptured by the"wets."

Reports show that 39 dry towns wentwet, 19 wet towns went dry, 72 wettowns retained the saloon and 110 drytowns remained true to their colors.

The crow sticks steadfastly to his caws.